Messages in this thread | | | From | "Gilles Espinasse" <> | Subject | Re: A system for rebootless kernel security updates | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:00:41 +0200 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz> To: "Tomasz Chmielewski" <mangoo@wpkg.org> Cc: "LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <jbarnold@MIT.EDU>; <francois.cami@free.fr>; "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>; <mail@earthworm.de> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:17 PM Subject: Re: A system for rebootless kernel security updates
> On Thu 2008-04-24 16:26:44, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > Jeff Arnold wrote: > > > > >I've put together an automatic system for applying > > >kernel security patches to the Linux kernel without > > >rebooting it, and I wanted to share this system with > > >the community in case others find it useful or > > >interesting. > > > > Hmm, the idea seem to be patented by Microsoft, i.e. > > this patent from December 2002: > > > > http://www.google.com/patents?id=cVyWAAAAEBAJ&dq=hotpatching > > > > (and other patents by Microsoft if you search for > > "hotpatching"). > > ...so US will not be able to fix security holes without reboot, good. > Perhaps they fix their stupid laws after next worm outbreak... > I have hot-patched on PDP-11 without reboot over the phone line many years before Microsoft patent. In the time of MS patent, the machines I care were no more running.
Just another stupid patent.
Gilles
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